Why Not Quotes - Page 33

• Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Humor, Ferrets

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• Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Book, Scripture

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• Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

  Keri Hulme

  Boys, Fire, Sea

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.94, LSU Press

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• Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Art, Moving, Oil

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.11, Macmillan

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• When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes. Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a cotton pad?" I'm not taking them off." Why not?" I spent $180 on that makeup job and I refuse to wash my face until I get my money's worth.

  Jen Lancaster

  Mom, Jobs, Makeup

  Jen Lancaster (2006). “Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office”, p.208, Penguin

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• The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?

  Veronica Roth

  Lying, Secret, Desire

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• I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Practice, Waiting, Doe

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.

  Richelle Mead

  Tattoo, Motherhood, Honor

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.65, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?"   "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"   "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Writing, Epic, Thinking

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

  Tessa Dare

  Challenges, Pistols, Way

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• Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

  Mason Cooley

  Interesting, Interesting Life, Slogans

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• How?" I had seen it with my own eyes, but I still didn't believe it. Then something struck me. "Take off your shirt!" "I'm not that kind of guy!" He frowned thoughtfully. "On second thought, why not?" I blushed angrily and looked at Raquel. "What is he? I don't see anything!" "He's not 'anything'.Just a talented boy." "Then how did he make a door? How did he get through the Paths?" "Wait,so am I allowed to put my shirt back on? Or did you want me to remove my pants,too?" Lend and I joined forces in a dark glare. "Only if you want me to vomit," I snapped.

  Kiersten White

  Believe, Eye, Dark

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• If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.

  Ray Bradbury

  Weed, Jobs, Crazy

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• "Stupid English."
  "English isn't stupid," I say.
  "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me."
  "Why not?"
  "He says lunch isn't a subject."
  I glance at him. "It isn't."
  "Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?"

  Jodi Picoult

  Teacher, Stupid, Writing

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• You're screening your calls?" "Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots." "Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl. "You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.(...)

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Idiot, Insult

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.102, Penguin

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• Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Firsts, Diploma

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.172, Broadway Books

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• I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

  Nathan Fillion

  Nice, Mean, People

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• If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

  George W. Melville

  Men, Ideas, Dollars

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• The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?

  Edward de Bono

  Simple, Perception, Bombs

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• 'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

  Benjamin Carson

  Risk, Should

  "Take The Risk". Book by Ben Carson, 2008.

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• There's a new iPad out...People are going nuts for this thing...And, today, Mitt Romney said, 'It's a flat piece of white plastic. If you can love it, why not me?'

  Bill Maher

  Nuts, Ipads, White

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• Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it; tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn't diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.

  Adam Gopnik

  Men, People, Littles

  "Fascinating history" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2012.

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• We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet? Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup we will have inter-planetary competitions.

  Sepp Blatter

  Games, Competition, One Day

  "Sepp Blatter suggests that football could be played on other planets" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2014.

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• Many atheistic books and blogs seethe with anger. Remarkably, the authors do not limit their anger to Christians. They seem most livid with God. I don't believe in leprechauns, but I haven't dedicated my life to battling them. I suppose if I believed that people's faith in leprechauns poisoned civilization, I might get angry with members of leprechaun churches. But there's one thing I'm quite sure I wouldn't do: I would not get angry with leprechauns. Why not? Because I can't get angry with someone I know doesn't exist.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil”, p.136, Multnomah

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• It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

  Woody Allen

  Character, Writing, Exhilarating Feeling

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